Dayton Ward is a New York Times bestselling author or co-author of more than forty novels and novellas, often working with his best friend, Kevin Dilmore. His short fiction has appeared in more than thirty anthologies, and he’s written for publications such as NCO Journal, Kansas City Voices, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Star Trek and Star Trek Communicator as well as the websites Tor.com, StarTrek.com, and Syfy.com.

Dayton’s latest publications are Somewhere to Belong, a Star Trek: Discovery novel from Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint, and short fiction in Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Working with his friend and co-writer, Kevin Dilmore, he also has new short fiction in the anthologies High Noon On Proxima B from Baen Books and Unioverse: Tales of the Reconvergence from Hex Publishers. Also written with Kevin and coming later this year from BenBella Books is Iron Man: Tony Stark Declassified, an in-depth look at the man under the armor.